When nominating previous RSC prize or award winners, please remember that a person cannot be awarded twice for substantially the same body of work

To make a nomination please use our online awards nominations system to submit the following:

Your name, contact details, and membership number (please contact the RSC Membership team if you do not know your membership details)

The nominee's name and contact details

An up to date CV for the nominee (no longer than one A4 side, 11pt text) which should include their date of birth, summary of education and career, a list of 5 relevant publications, total numbers of publications and patents (if appropriate) and website URL if relevant

A supporting statement (up to 4500 characters, not including spaces) addressing the selection criteria

A short citation describing what the nominee should be awarded for. This must be no longer than 250 characters (not including spaces) and ideally no longer than one sentence

References are not required for this award and will not be accepted

Selection Criteria for RSC Awards

Our selection committees base their evaluations primarily on the overall quality of relevant contributions made by nominees and not simply on quantitative measures.

The selection committee(s) will consider the following aspects of all nominations for scientific research Awards as appropriate:

Previous Winners

History of the Award

This award was established to recognise the life of and numerous scientific contributions made by Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson. This award was formerly known as the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship.

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson graduated from Imperial College, London in 1941. He went on to work in the chemistry field in Montreal, Berkeley (CA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University until he returned to England in 1955. He was appointed chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College, London where he worked on the complexes of transition metals.

Well known for Wilkinson's catalyst, used in the hydrogenation of alkenes and for discovering the structure of ferrocene, he was also awarded a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on organometallic compounds in 1973. He died in 1996, aged 75.